Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 209 The Unsteady Zhu Youjian
Standing at the forefront of the Third Guards Army at this time is the First Battalion of Infantry (Type A Battalion).

The commander of the battalion, Liu Xiyao, is a veteran of the army like Liu Fangliang, and has rich combat experience. Now he is only a commander of the infantry battalion, which is considered a low profile.

But precisely because of his seasoned experience, when he saw the armored soldiers who were proficient in bows and horses led by Enan, the Tartar, he could still calmly order the shield soldiers to raise their shields, order the spearmen to raise their spears, and at the same time order the soldiers behind to raise their shields. The infantry of each association completed the shooting action.

Although fierce Tartars shot heavy arrows from time to time, many of them even shot directly at the infantry officers and soldiers of the Guards Army, causing the officers and soldiers to fall to the ground before they started shooting.

But because of Liu Xiyao's calmness, the formation of the first infantry battalion in the front did not become chaotic.

Watching a few Ming army infantry fall down from time to time, E'nan and the Tartar cavalry behind him all became proud, couldn't help showing a cold smile, proudly continued to draw their bows and shot Ming army infantry one by one in front of their eyes.

Dong Zhining, one of the Six Gentlemen of Ningbo, gritted his teeth tightly and watched a comrade-in-arms fall beside him.

He is both resentful and afraid now, but because the commander is still standing at the forefront, coupled with military discipline, he has no choice but to grit his teeth and hold on

, wishing not to wait for Shangfeng's order now, but to pull the trigger to fire the bullet first, it seems that only in this way can alleviate the fear in his heart.

Zhang Mengyi, like him, also tightly held the spear at his waist. He could feel the roar from the ground. He even wanted to get up and run away more than once, but he always settled down habitually. , enduring the shock and fear brought to him by the charging Tartars.

Because he had to grit his teeth again when he thought of the terrible consequences of standing up first on his own initiative during training in the past, he would have to punish the Thirty Army Batons and be imprisoned for three days!

The infantry battalion in the back was fine. After all, people's instinctive psychology is to feel that there is the first battalion in front of them, so they feel that their side is safer.

Of course, despite this, the infantry battalion behind was equally nervous. Some infantry even backed up a few steps unconsciously, but because they backed up, they bumped into the people behind, and when they realized what they were doing, they walked away a little uneasy. back.

Not only the infantry who participated in the battle were a little uneasy, but even Zhu Youjian, who was standing on the tower at the moment, was a little uneasy.

Zhu Youjian also knew that when the cavalry galloped, it would have a powerful psychological shock to the infantry battalion, and it could even break through a person's psychological defense line and completely collapse the infantry battalion.

But if you want to build a strong psychological defense, you can only really train it in this kind of actual combat.

Although in the past, the Guards also practiced the training that infantry should insist on obeying orders and would rather die than retreat when facing a cavalry charge.

But it was just a rehearsal after all. At this moment, everyone knew that the man rushing opposite was the world's most powerful cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and seeing that they were bigger, fiercer and crueler than themselves, so it was normal for the infantry to shrink back.

Zhu Youjian was not sure whether the infantry of his Guards could withstand such pressure.

Even his heart was in his throat, he wished he could yell for the battalion commander now, after all, he also knew that shooting in such a situation would reduce the fear of the infantry.

"Who is the commander of the battalion? Could it be that he was frightened and confused? Why hasn't he ordered to shoot!"

Zhu Youjian couldn't help shouting and asking, with an angry look on his face.

However, Liu Xiyao, as a spear soldier who followed Liu Fangliang in the South and North Wars for many years, has a better psychological quality than the Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian who watched the "scenery" from the tower. He still hasn't spoken yet, but continues to use semaphore to order his officers keep calm.

It wasn't until he could see E'nan's face clearly, and even Dong Zhining couldn't help but take a few steps back, that Liu Xiyao yelled: "Fight!"

For a moment, the soldiers of the [-]st Infantry Battalion of the [-]st Corps of the [-]rd Army of the Guards impatiently pulled the trigger as if holding back for a long time, and fired the bullet that had stayed in the barrel for a hundred years. go out.

As soon as the first shot was fired, the psychological fear of the soldiers of the [-]st Battalion of the Guards Infantry really dropped a lot.

Facing the Qing army's iron cavalry was about to arrive in front of them, and when heavy arrows hit their camp more frequently, the infantry soldiers of the Guards were much calmer when they continued to fire the second shot.

Liu Xiyao, the infantry commander of the first battalion, heard the first shot fired, and even heard the sound of the infantry urinating behind him, like running water.

But Liu Xiyao didn't blame him, and he didn't make a joke. After all, it's normal for people to pee their pants in such a situation. He just nodded: "Good job, keep shooting!"

At this time, after the first shot was fired, Dong Zhining finally couldn't help peeing out. It seemed that the fear in his heart was gone all of a sudden, and instead he shot desperately to prove that he was not cowardly man!

Indeed, although many infantry soldiers have been frightened to respond physiologically, the rhythm of shooting has become more orderly and effective.

The Eight Banners cavalry of the Manchu army, such as Hubei, showed their yellow teeth, and rode their horses eeriely.

Although the formation of the infantry battalion was not frightened by their formation, they did not realize that the danger was approaching at all. Instead, they rode their horses and raised their horses without avoiding them at all, and they were about to directly break through the infantry camp of the Guards.

At this time, the Manchu Eight Banners iron cavalry was only a hundred steps away from the first battalion of the Daming Infantry.

The ancients used a step between 30 meters and 150 meters, and a hundred steps were between [-] meters and [-] meters. From this distance, you can almost see the appearance of a person.

It stands to reason that the Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock gun was produced by Zhu Youjian himself. It was designed based on the Portuguese mercenary's flintlock gun, Bi Maokang's flintlock gun blueprint and the legendary artifact Lumi blunderbuss. Coupled with the improvement of gunpowder and the improvement of barrel materials, it can be regarded as the most advanced flintlock gun in the world.

The shooting range has reached more than 150 steps, and it has lethality. Otherwise, it would not be able to break the Tartar heavy armor Ba Yala in Kaifeng City.

Of course, this range has affected the accuracy and accuracy of infantry shooting. One hundred steps just meets the requirements of high accuracy and high destructive power of flintlock guns.

But at the same time, it was twice as long as the precision killing distance of the bird gun at about fifty steps, so that the Tartars did not realize that they had entered the precision strike range of the infantry battalion of the Guards.

The crackling bullets, accompanied by the heavy arrows fired by the Tartars, pierced the void and went in the opposite direction.

The Eight Banners cavalry of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, such as Enan, were already more excited at this time, because even if the Qing army was proficient in arching horses and having amazing arm strength, they were still human beings. Only a person with super strong arms can kill people at a distance of two hundred steps.

At this time, it was approaching within a hundred steps, which meant that each of the Qing cavalry had the conditions to shoot the enemy accurately.

Enan, the deputy commander of the capital, directly shot three arrows, preparing to shoot a senior officer of the Guards (Liu Xiyao) in the front, as well as the shield bearer and spearmen in front of him, so as to lay the foundation for him to break through the camp in the next moment. .

Daerba, who is Zhenghongqi Niulu Zhangjing, also raised three heavy arrows, and was about to shoot a fair-skinned scholar officer (Chen Zilong, commander of the third infantry battalion) on the flank.

(End of this chapter)